Technology
Paris se donne si facilement au regard des peintres et des touristes, on l’a si souvent photographiée, on a publié sur la Ville Lumière tellement de beaux livres, qu’on oublie les difficultés des...
Written for a large public interested in renewing the understanding of scientific practice and its connection with the rest of society this book uses anecdotes, case studies, examples from many...
Netz’s book is, without question, the most important work in science studies since Shapin & Schaffer Leviathan and the Air Pump. By resorting to a very original semiotic and constructivist...
The contribution of the field of science and technology studies (STS) to main stream sociology has so far been slim because of a misunderstanding about what it means to provide a social explanation...
This article of social theory reintroduces the object inside the definition of society and shows how this can solve the debate between « micro” and « macro” definitions of social order. It adds to...
In a special issue devoted to human-non-human attribution, it uses the former paper to show that the two extreme positions of humans and non-humans are devoid of meaning and should be replaced,...
In this series of three lectures -shortened in one long paper- is presented the philosophical, sociological and mythical account of the links between humans and non-humans; the first section explores...
Technology is based on a strange idea of matter coming largely from epistemology, which means that instead of a thick materialism, we end up, most of the time with an idealism of matter that renders...
The first task of the anthropology of techniques is to establish a common ground between those who study traditional techniques and those, called sociologists, technologists, historians of technology...
According to some physicists there is not enough mass in the universe to balance the accounts that cosmologists make of it. They are looking everywhere for the “missing mass” that could add up to the...
